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  • India to Double Exports

    06/16/2006 2:49:56 PM PDT · by G. Stolyarov II · 1 replies · 207+ views
    PanAsianBiz ^ | June 16, 2006 | Dr. Bill Belew
    $100 billion in annual exports is India's new target. Add to that 25 million new jobs within the next 4 years. These are India's new economic goals. India expects its low-cost labor force and expertise in engineering to continue to draw investment into the country's manufacturing sector. India, of course, is known as a services hub. She would like to add to that growth in: 1. Engineering 2. Textiles 3. Drugs (legal) & 4. Auto Parts In any event, India will grow and grow and grow... Do you have plans for business with India? Why or why not?
  • Social Engineering, the USB Way

    06/14/2006 4:17:53 PM PDT · by SandRat · 2 replies · 226+ views
    Dark Reading Risky Business ^ | Jun 7, 2006 | Steve Stasiukonis
    JUNE 7, 2006 | We recently got hired by a credit union to assess the security of its network. The client asked that we really push hard on the social engineering button. In the past, they'd had problems with employees sharing passwords and giving up information easily. Leveraging our effort in the report was a way to drive the message home to the employees. The client also indicated that USB drives were a concern, since they were an easy way for employees to steal information, as well as bring in potential vulnerabilities such as viruses and Trojans. Several other clients...
  • Too Bad Hippocrates Wasn't an Engineer

    06/11/2006 9:53:40 PM PDT · by neverdem · 48 replies · 2,047+ views
    NY Times ^ | June 11, 2006 | JOHN SCHWARTZ
    IN ancient Babylon, they knew from accountability. Under the Code of Hammurabi, "If a builder build a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death." What's more, "If it kill the son of the owner, the son of that builder shall be put to death." Engineers these days don't have that worry. Mistakes may carry legal penalties and a measure of shame. The people who die are those who depend on the engineers' work. Nearly 1,600 people died in...
  • (Vanity) Political Limerick 06-10-2006

    06/10/2006 6:40:05 AM PDT · by grey_whiskers · 3 replies · 225+ views
    grey_whiskers ^ | 06-10-2006 | grey_whiskers
    See for example this thread first. A novel plan to design nukes On-line simulation of flukes It straddles the line 'tween Darwin and Design The thread ought to bring out the kooks!
  • Trying to Catch the Wind

    06/08/2006 8:22:08 PM PDT · by neverdem · 20 replies · 870+ views
    The American Enterprise Online ^ | June 6, 2006 | William Tucker
    The National Wind Technology Center sits at the foot of the Rockies just south of Boulder. Although within sight of Denver, the swell of the land hides the city, making you feel as if you’re in the middle of nowhere. The site is well chosen. Generally you need good proximity to mountains to take advantage of wind energy. The best sites in America are in the High Sierras, the Rockies, and the Appalachian Mountains. The other “Saudi Arabia of wind” is the upper Midwest, where the Dakotas, western Minnesota, and northwest Iowa catch the jet stream barreling down from Canada....
  • New ‘report card’ shows Congress must act on science

    06/05/2006 11:51:28 AM PDT · by cogitator · 24 replies · 420+ views
    Baltimore Examiner ^ | June 5, 2006 | Morton Kondracke
    BALTIMORE - Dismal new results on U.S. student performance in science ought to spur Congress to pass President Bush’s competitiveness agenda this year — and to extend his “No Child Left Behind” program to high schools. The competitiveness agenda — which includes scholarships aimed at producing 10,000 more science teachers per year as well as increases in U.S. research funding — has bipartisan support but is moving slowly through Congress.Markups of key legislation have yet to take place in the House or Senate, and leaders have yet to schedule floor time for the bills, which could represent a major success...
  • Dialing up an invention: Spa City student turns cell phone into a car starter(PHOTO)

    06/04/2006 12:57:28 PM PDT · by Read2Know · 44 replies · 1,364+ views
    The Post-Star ^ | 06/04/2006 | BRENDAN McGARRY
    SARATOGA SPRINGS -- It all started last winter, with a faulty remote starter on her 1996 Chevrolet Lumina. Like many others, Sarah Dodge dreaded the thought of having to brave the elements to warm up her car before school. In today's world of high-tech gizmos, the 18-year-old senior at Saratoga Springs High School figured there had to be a better solution. Turns out, there was -- and now Sarah is the first student in a pre-engineering program at the school to have a federal patent pending, teacher Michael Gallagher said.
  • THE AMERICAN WAR ON SCIENCE

    06/02/2006 9:02:13 AM PDT · by RKV · 84 replies · 1,157+ views
    Seed Magazine ^ | 1 June 2006 | Christopher Mims
    By most objective measures, the United States is the undisputed world leader in science and innovation, whether it's funding for research and development, the number of PhD students it graduates or its share of the world's patents. For the world's wealthiest nation, this is hardly a remarkable feat. What is remarkable is that the US accomplished this with a supply of domestic talent whose skills in math and science are, also according to most objective measures, merely mediocre. Luckily, in the past, many excellent foreign students have shouldered the load, preferring to come here to study and work than stay...
  • IEEE-USA blasts Senate high-tech visa provisons

    05/26/2006 3:05:10 PM PDT · by indthkr · 101 replies · 1,178+ views
    EE Times ^ | 05/26/2006 | EE Times Staff
    WASHINGTON — The nation's leading engineering group expressed disappointment with immigration legislation approved this week by the Senate. The controversial Senate immigration bill includes a provision raising the cap on H-1B visas for highly educated temporary workers by 50,000 to 115,000 per fiscal year. It also provides exemptions from both H-1B and employment-based, or "green card," visa caps for foreign workers with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. High-tech and business groups lauded the bill as a boost for U.S. competitiveness. But the IEEE-USA criticized the measure. "We don’t understand why the Senate wants to expand a program...
  • Big Questions About the Big Easy (GA Tech Civil Eng Prof interview)

    05/21/2006 10:31:12 AM PDT · by FreedomPoster · 11 replies · 571+ views
    Big Questions About the Big Easy Hughes Joseph Hughes chairs the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech and serves on the EPA's environmental engineering advisory committee. He toured the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast with President Wayne Clough in November, spoke to former Alumni Association trustees in January and recently sat down with the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Hughes now is helping coordinate a conference that will address the future of New Orleans.What is Georgia Tech's role in the rebuilding of New Orleans? We're at the stage right now in the discussion where there are real questions whether we should rebuild...
  • Unsung Engineering Heros

    05/13/2006 2:49:50 PM PDT · by pabianice · 1 replies · 411+ views
    The Nav Log ^ | 5/13/06
    Unsung Engineering Heros: Robert Sherman In 1945, Robert Sherman invented the modern portable, in-window air conditioner (Patent # 2,433,960 granted January 6, 1948). It was subsequently "appropriated" by a large manufacturer who made hundreds of millions of dollars on it. Sherman did not have the resources to fight the big corporation in court (they reportedly promised to "break him" if he tried) and thus never received a dime. He died in 1962. Recognition of his contribution to heating/air conditioning is long overdue. Full Article
  • GlobalSpec Games Trebuchet Challenge (Sport of Engineers)

    05/09/2006 6:17:21 PM PDT · by visualops · 5 replies · 577+ views
    Globalspec ^ | 5-09-06 | Globalspec
    Remember the Trebuchet, the original siege engine?It's back and ready to put your physics muscles to the test. Custome build your "Treb" to take on three seperate challenges: Distance, Accuracy and Power. GlobalSpec Treb Challenge
  • Engineering a Safer, More Beautiful World, One Failure at a Time

    05/04/2006 11:14:58 PM PDT · by neverdem · 9 replies · 843+ views
    NY Times ^ | May 2, 2006 | CORNELIA DEAN
    DURHAM, N.C. — For an engineer, Henry Petroski seems strangely enthusiastic about failure. Not his own, of course. Fear of failure is what sent him, with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, to graduate school rather than to work, and then to a career of teaching and writing, not designing and building. From his vantage point, failures in design and construction present perfect teaching opportunities. They are object lessons in the history and practice and beauty of engineering. "Failure is central to engineering," he said in an interview. "Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful...
  • Making (Air)Waves

    04/25/2006 12:48:49 PM PDT · by JSedreporter · 1 replies · 268+ views
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | April 25, 2006 | Julia A. Seymour
    Penn State University’s Lion Radio is home to Radio Free Penn State, and while it may not be the Rush Limbaugh show, the student talk show with its host Andy Nagypal is both entertaining and insightful. On April 12, the show hosted students, alumni and featured a phone interview with state Representative Gibson C. Armstrong as part of Academic Freedom Week on Radio Free Penn State. Rep. Armstrong reiterated the purpose of his committee and explained what has transpired with the hearings so far. He also encouraged students experiencing political harassment to stand up. “You may get a bad grade...
  • 2 San Jose State University students to hang with Bush

    04/20/2006 12:07:33 PM PDT · by Battle Hymn of the Republic · 17 replies · 715+ views
    mercury news ^ | 4/20/06 | Mary Anne Ostrom
    Take that, Stanford. Two San Jose State students have been asked by the White House to represent budding Silicon Valley engineering talent and rub shoulders with President Bush on Friday when he visits Cisco Systems. College of Engineering Dean Belle Wei said she got a call Tuesday from a valley ``Republican heavyweight,'' asking for names. Wei said she thinks SJSU got the call because ``we have normal students, not Stanford students, privileged students.'' After all, Bush is in town to tout his plan for keeping American industry competitive in the computer age. Wei has tapped two of her top students,...
  • Life in the Green Lane (hybrids)

    04/16/2006 10:16:07 PM PDT · by neverdem · 61 replies · 1,489+ views
    NY Times ^ | April 16, 2006 | JAMIE LINCOLN KITMAN
    IF you make your way over to the Javits Convention Center for the New York International Automobile Show — or if you've gone to any auto show in the last year or so — you'll know that hybrid cars are the hippest automotive fashion statement to come along in years. They've become synonymous with the worthy goal of reducing gasoline consumption and dependence on foreign oil and all that this means for a better environment and more stable geopolitics. And yet like fat-free desserts, which sound healthy but can still make you fat, the hybrid car can make people feel...
  • The Upside of Outsourcing [ Glass is Half Full ]

    03/29/2006 12:28:23 PM PST · by Paul Ross · 11 replies · 575+ views
    ISA Intech ^ | March 29, 2006 | Bob Felton
    The Upside of outsourcing While the move of labor elsewhere is unsettling, opportunities emerge for savvy engineers  By Bob Felton Do the present dislocations in manufacturing represent a relatively short-lived reprise of a familiar pattern in the American economy, or are they the beginning of an enduring change as the emerging nations assume ever-greater roles in the design and manufacture of the world’s goods? No less important, what should control and automation engineers be doing to protect their careers in a time of dizzying, almost daily changes? The turmoil wrought by industrial relocations and onshore and offshore outsourcing bears striking...
  • (Vanity)Moving to Norfolk area in August(Vanity)

    03/02/2006 5:17:43 PM PST · by zkbeta51 · 4 replies · 161+ views
    zkbeta51
    My wife and I are moving to the Norfolk area in August for the Military and she has started looking for jobs.
  • National Engineers Week: Feb 19-25

    02/20/2006 8:24:23 AM PST · by avg_freeper · 113 replies · 1,609+ views
    EWEEK ^ | Feb. 19, 2005 | various
    Main Site: with activities for kids Lockheed Martin Inspires Central Florida Students to Pursue Technical Careers During National Engineers Week 2006 ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lockheed Martin's Central Florida businesses will support local activities to promote math and science education for students during National Engineers Week, February 19-25. Through fun hands-on activities, students will learn about engineering and engineering careers.excerpt...General Dynamics Hosts Student Events for National Engineers WeekARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD - News), is sponsoring events nationwide during National Engineers Week beginning Feb....
  • Jobs Update: Are You Ready for This?

    02/17/2006 6:05:43 AM PST · by A. Pole · 297 replies · 5,369+ views
    The Chronicles Magazine ^ | Wednesday, February 15, 2006 | Paul Craig Roberts
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently re-benchmarked the payroll jobs data back to 2000. Thanks to Charles McMillion of MBG Information Services, I have the adjusted data from January 2001 through January 2006. If you are worried about terrorists, you don’t know what worry is. Job growth over the last five years is the weakest on record. The U.S. economy was more than 7 million jobs short of keeping up with population growth. That’s one good reason for controlling immigration. An economy that cannot keep up with population growth should not be boosting population with heavy rates of legal and...